Question

I do my web development in Eclipse (PDT) locally. Usually, I need to publish my changed codes onto staging server to preview. For last 5 years, I have been using ant script (build.xml – ftp task) to ftp the codes onto server. I am just wondering maybe there is a better tool to do the similar/better job. Can anyone share your experience?

Thanks,
xin

This is a sample ant script target:

<target name="deploy-live" description="FTP files from ${source} to staging server">
    <ftp server="${live-server}" port="${live-server-port}" userid="${live-userid}" password="${password}" depends="no" verbose="yes" passive="yes"
            remotedir=".">
        <fileset dir="${source}">
            <include name="abc/**"/>
            <exclude name="**/Thumbs.db" />
        </fileset>
    </ftp>
</target>

Answer 1

Maven might be an alternative. Also, this question and this one should help you.